Quotes About Progress

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

A third attempt, later in the day, provoked a terrific crash, and a subsequent message from the Central Exchange that Professor Challenger's receiver had been shattered. After that we abandoned all attempt at communication.

the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

My mind, he said, rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.

Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.

I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.

Algunas veces las cosas tienen que ir mal para terminar bien.

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

Except, what is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same. I realize now that what I wanted was comfort, but that, too, does not often come with growth and change.

Things happen when they happen, not when you're ready for them.

He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.

Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.

It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be.

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly.

Try to remember with description that you must never just let it lie there; nothing in your story should ever be static unless you have a very good reason indeed for keeping your reader still; the essence of the story is motion.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself

It means moving forward with courage," she answered.

Perhaps we should move backward with courage, so as to understand what we really came from and who we were.